They still had to climb a steep ascent that lay behind Peter's hut.

她们还得爬上彼得小屋后面的一座陡峭的山坡。

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What lay behind his anger was really the hurt he felt at Grace's refusal.

在他的愤怒背后其实是遭格雷斯拒绝而感到的心痛。

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What lay behind this strange outburst?

这反常的感情冲动的真正原因是什么？

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"The numbers however do not convey the human horrors that lay behind those statistics,"

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But still no-one in the village would talk to us about what lay behind the violence.

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But serious issues lay behind the rotting, brain munching subjects of the academic's tongue-in-cheek examination.

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The bank said a marked fall in demand for manufactured goods lay behind the latest decline.

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